The Fintech Times

JULY 4, 2025

With firms spending roughly $120billion (S$154.2billion) on cross-border transaction fees, alternatives are being sought after. According to a new report from the Project Guardian FX industry group, implementing tokenised bank liabilities and shared ledgers in cross-border payments and FX is a viable solution.

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Fintech Finance

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The Challenge Cross-border payments are critical yet often costly and complex, especially for growing businesses expanding into Southeast Asia and South Asia. HitPay’s Cross-Border Payment Solution HitPay is thrilled to announce the launch of its revolutionary single switch to 10 global real-time payment schemes.

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Fintech News

MAY 5, 2025

XWeave , a startup developing infrastructure for stablecoin-based cross-border payments, has raised US$3 million in seed funding. The company is also in talks with regional fintechs and global merchant platforms to integrate real-time cross-border settlement into their products.

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Fintech News

JUNE 16, 2025

As the global demand for faster, more affordable, and increasingly transparent cross-border payments intensifies, Project Nexus is emerging as a foundational initiative to meet the G20’s ambitious roadmap. What is Project Nexus, and how does it address today’s cross-border payment challenges?

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Finextra

JUNE 18, 2025

Discussing interoperability in the face of fragmentation within cross-border operations, Susana Delgado, Global Head of Market Intelligence & Engagement, Swift joined the FinextraTV studio at EBAday 2025.

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Fintech News

JULY 23, 2025

PayPal has launched a new platform called PayPal World to simplify cross-border payments and digital wallet interoperability for both consumers and businesses. The platform is expected to go live later this year, starting with interoperability between PayPal, Venmo, and other participating networks from key markets.

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The Fintech Times

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The solution, dubbed UBS Digital Cash, aims to increase the transparency and security of cross-border payments with blockchain-based payments. Cross-border payments often lead to delayed settlements, creating a fragmented view of liquidity positions for companies.

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NFCW

JUNE 26, 2025

” EPI signs ‘landmark’ agreement with European domestic payments brands for cross-border in-store mobile payments was written by Sarah Clark and published by NFCW.

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Fintech News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The Pay-to-Card solution provides Thunes’ members with a streamlined, efficient option for cross-border payments, connecting them to a broad range of financial ecosystems through a single connection. said Floris de Kort, CEO of Thunes.

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Fintech Finance

APRIL 17, 2025

The speed of cross-border payments has significantly improved in recent years 90% of transactions over Swift, for example, reach end banks within an hour and most are automatically processed. Case Management is part of a suite of solutions available to Swift customers that help address friction in cross-border transactions.

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The Payments Association

JUNE 3, 2025

James Hurren explores what early CBDC deployments across Asia, the Caribbean, and Europe reveal about usage, adoption, and the future of cross-border digital money. Beyond technical proof points, these initiatives underscore the need for global interoperability.

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The Payments Association

JUNE 9, 2025

It enhances resilience, broadens access, improves interoperability, and enables innovation, thereby modernising the UK’s financial infrastructure. RT2 offers four key advancements: enhanced resilience, expanded access, wider interoperability, and improved functionality. Why is it important? What’s next?

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Fintech News

MARCH 11, 2025

NITMX is also actively working with other Chinese payment providers to further enhance cross-border payment capabilities. This partnership will extend the use of the YunShanFu app across popular Thai tourist destinations like Bangkok, Phuket, and Chiang Mai, enabling users to scan PromptPay QR codes as they do domestically.

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Fintech News

JANUARY 9, 2025

The processes included converting reserve account balances into digital Rupiah and vice versa, ensuring seamless interoperability with Bank Indonesias Real-Time Gross Settlement (BI-RTGS) system. These advancements will expand the utility of the Digital Rupiah within Indonesias financial ecosystem and potentially in cross-border contexts.

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Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

JULY 24, 2025

Domestic and cross-border interoperability: The U.S. now aligns with international payment standards, making cross-border payments smoother and reducing the need for format conversions or data mapping.

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The Fintech Times

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

” Blockchain-enabled cross-border payments StraitsX , a payments infrastructure provider for the digital assets space in Southeast Asia, has officially gone live in partnership with Ant International and Grab. Visa is committed to meeting the evolving demands of consumers and merchants, ensuring seamless and secure payments.”

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The Fintech Times

JULY 3, 2025

Through the new partnership, OpenPayd will support Ripple’s cross-border payments solution, Ripple Payments, with its global fiat infrastructure, including real-time payment rails, multi-currency accounts and virtual IBANs.

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The Payments Association

JUNE 3, 2025

Tokenisation is now a core enabler of secure, interoperable digital paymentspowering embedded finance, asset tokenisation, and evolving identity flows. Once a system for masking sensitive data, tokenisation has evolved into a foundational technology for enabling secure, interoperable, and scalable digital payments.

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Fintech News

JANUARY 13, 2025

The region witnessed the emergence of only one new unicorn: Polyhedra Network , an infrastructure provider for web3 interoperability. Rising interest rates have increased borrowing costs for startups, while geopolitical instability adds layers of uncertainty to cross-border investments.

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The Paypers

JUNE 23, 2025

The EuroPA alliance has partnered with EPI Company to assess a cross-border digital payments solution aimed at improving payment interoperability within Europe.

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The Fintech Times

JUNE 22, 2025

Challenges such as high transaction costs and opaque exchange rates have been prevalent in Africa over the last few years, meaning that establishing strong cross-border payment avenues has been tough. African borders are starting to matter less; this is Onafriq ‘s goal.”

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The Payments Association

MARCH 19, 2025

The high price of legacy in a payments-first world Banks that continue to rely on legacy infrastructure face mounting challenges: Limited scalability: Legacy tech wasnt built for real-time, cross-border, 24/7 payments or seamless integration with regional schemes. This can be on-prem, or hosted in any private or public cloud.

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The Payments Association

JANUARY 15, 2025

Swift drives global interoperability and innovation, aligning with the UK’s National Payments Vision to enhance seamless, secure payments. This added transparency would bring cross-border functionality to domestic instant payments, aligning with the G20s roadmap and providing end users with a payments experience that is fast and secure.

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The Fintech Times

JULY 17, 2025

But the real story is in the infrastructure behind it: licensing, interoperability and a deep commitment to making cross-border payments work for everyone – not just the biggest players. This purpose is rooted in facilitating inclusion and interoperability. TerraPay now connects over 155 countries and 3.7

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Fintech Finance

DECEMBER 11, 2024

To better combat fraud in cross-border payments, Swift, the global provider of secure financial messaging services, is working with Google Cloud to develop anti-fraud technologies that use advanced AI and federated learning.

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Fintech Finance

APRIL 15, 2025

This partnership aims to drive economic growth by making cross-border transactions faster, easy to use and more accessible by connecting banks, mobile wallets, and financial institutions. According to Mordor Intelligence, the MENA digital payments market is estimated at $251.34 billion USD in 2025 and is expected to reach $422.56

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Fintech News

JUNE 17, 2025

A key feature on its way to mobile wallets is support for card networks and domestic bank transfer networks alongside international cross-border payment rails. This enhanced connectivity allows users to move funds effortlessly across payment methods and national borders, streamlining transactions for individuals and businesses alike.

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Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

JUNE 24, 2025

This integration connects local payment rails (such as Brazil’s PIX) directly to global USDC liquidity, facilitating faster, cheaper, and more transparent cross-border payments without the need for banks to build new infrastructure from scratch 1 2 4 6. With USDC fully backed by liquid USD assets and redeemable 1:1 for U.S.

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Finextra

JULY 8, 2025

Joining FinextraTV at the EBAday 2025 in Paris, Sean Devaney, Vice President of Strategy for Banking and Financial Markets, CGI added to the ongoing conversations surrounding cross-border payments.

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Fintech Finance

JULY 10, 2025

Thunes has won the Thunes Best Payment Solution Award at the 2025 Asian Banking & Finance Fintech Awards, making its name as a great place to make payments across borders. This award shows how Thunes is becoming more important in building a global payment system that is seamless, scalable, and efficient.

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The Payments Association

JANUARY 21, 2025

The report notes how stablecoins, supported by regulatory developments, are driving advancements in digital commerce and cross-border transactions. Payments providers will need to prioritise interoperability and compliance to unlock growth while addressing security and volatility concerns.

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Fintech Finance

JANUARY 2, 2025

The FPC prioritizes inclusion of diverse perspectives in tackling complex topics such as interoperability, identifying real-world solutions that can ease adoption of faster payments, managing security risks and fraud threats, addressing barriers to financial inclusion and cross-border payments, and more, as the organization paves the way toward a future (..)

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Finextra

JUNE 11, 2025

Early Electronic Initiatives (late 1980s/early 1990s): Limited electronic fund transfers began to emerge, mainly within banks or for specific corporate clients, but were not widely interoperable. Its simplicity, interoperability, and low cost made it an instant success. Unified Payments Interface (UPI) (2016): The game-changer.

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The Payments Association

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Real-time cross-border payments: Redefining global remittances For migrant workers and cross-border businesses, sending and receiving money across borders has historically been expensive and slow. trillion business opportunity by 2025.

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Fintech News

JULY 10, 2025

RLUSD is issued under a New York Department of Financial Services Trust Company Charter and is designed to improve the speed, cost and efficiency of cross-border payments. The partnership reflects a joint effort to build compliant digital asset infrastructure suited for financial institutions.

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Fintech Finance

MARCH 30, 2025

Bancomat , Bizum and SIBS are bringing European payments to the next level through EuroPA, the European Payments Alliance, by achieving a significant milestone in cross-border payments in Europe. From today, the banks that are part of the local solutions will start to adhere to the interconnection gradually.

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Fintech Finance

JUNE 11, 2025

Whalet , a leading digital payment provider, has announced a strategic partnership with TerraPay , a global money movement company, to deliver seamless cross-border payout solutions worldwide. The integration will streamline transactions, reduce settlement complexities, and enhance operational efficiency for SMEs.

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